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POULTRY 
A PRACTICAL GUIDE 
To the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all 
descriptions of 
FOWLS, TURKEYS , GUINEA FOWLS, DUCKS, AND GEESE, 
FOR PROFIT AND EXHIBITION. 
With accurate and beautifully Coloured Plates, illustrating all the 
different varieties. 
By HUGH PIPER. 
Author of “ Pigeons; their Varieties, Management, Breeding, and Diseases.” 
CONTENTS: 
Chap. I. Introduction — Neglect of Poultry-breeding—Profit of Poultry¬ 
keeping—Value to the Farmer—Poultry Shows—Cottage Poultry. Chap. II. 
The Fowl-House.— Size of the House—Brick and Wood—Cheap Houses-The Roof 
—Ventilation—Light—Warmth — The Flooring—Perches—Moveable Frame— 
Roosts for Cochin-Chinas and Brahmah-Pootras—Nests for Laying—Cleanliness 
— Fowls’ Dung — Doors and Entrance-holes — Lime-washing—Fumigating— 
Raising Chickens under Glass. Chap. III. The Fowl-Yard .—Soil—Situa¬ 
tion—Covered Run—Pulverised Earth for Deodorising—Diet for Confined 
Fowls—Height of Wall, &c.—Preventing Fowls from Flying—The Dust-heap— 
Material for Shells—Gravel—The Gizzard—Tne Grass Run. Chap. IV. 
Food .—Table of Relative Constituents and Qualities of Food—Barley—Oats— 
Meal—Refuse Corn—Boiling Grain—Indian Corn or Maize—Buckwheat, Peas, 
Beans, and Tares—Rice—Hempseed—Linseed—Potatoes—Roots—Soft Food— 
Variety of Food—Quantity—Mode of Feeding—Number of Meals—Grass and 
Vegetables—Insects—Worms—Snails and Slugs—Animal Food—Water—Foun¬ 
tains. Chap. V. Eggs .—Eggs all the Year round—Warmth Essential to 
Laying—Forcing Eggs—Soft Shells—Shape and Colour of Eggs—The Air-bag— 
Preserving Eggs—Keeping and Choosing Eggs for Setting—Sex of Eggs— 
Packing Setting-eggs for Travelling. Chap. VI. The Sitting Hen.r —Evil 
of Restraining a Hen from sitting—Checking the Desire—A Separate House 
and Run—Nests for Sitting in—Damping Eggs—Filling for Nests—Choosing 
their own Nests—Choosing a Hen for Sitting—Number and Age of Eggs—Food 
and Exercise—Absence from the Nest—Examining the Eggs—Setting two Hens 
on the same Day—Time of Incubation—The “Tapping” Sound—Breaking the 
Shell—Emerging from the Shell—Assisting the Chicken—Artificial Mothers— 
Artificial Incubation. Chap. VII. Fearing and Fattening Fowls. The 
Chicken’s first Food—Cooping the Brood—Basket and Wooden Coops—Feeding 
Chickens—Age for Fattening—Barn-door Fattening—Fattening Houses—Fat¬ 
tening Coops—Food—“Cramming”—Capons and Poulardes—Killing Poultry— 
Plucking and Packing Fowls—Preserving Feathers. Chap. VIII. Stock , 
Breeding , and Crossing. —Well-bred Fowls—Choice of Breed—Signs of Age— 
Breeding in-and-in—Number of Hens to one Cock—Choice of a Cock—To 
prevent Cocks from Fighting—Choice of a Hen—Improved Breeds—Origin of 
Breeds—Crossing—Choice of Breeding Stock—Keeping a Breed Pure. Chap. 
IX. Poultry Shows .—The First Shows—The first Birmingham Show—Influence 
of Shows—Exhibition Rules—Hatching for Summer and Winter Shows— 
Weight—Exhibition Fowls Sitting—Matching Fowls—Imparting Lustre to the 
Plumage — Washing Fowls—Hampers—Travelling—Treatment on Return— 
Washing the Hampers and Linings—Exhibition Points. Technical Terms 
—Ciiaps. X. to XXIII. inclusive. The Different Breeds.— Chap. XXIV. 
Diseases. 
GROOMBRIDGE & SONS. 5, Paternoster Row, London. 
